Lot 441: Jean Humbert (Amsterdam 1734-1794)

Jean Humbert (Amsterdam 1734-1794)
Portrait of Jean Daniel de Loches (1731-1794), half-length, in a gold-embroidered green coat with a white jabot, seated at a writing desk; and Portrait of Maria Josina Baldina van Oldenbarnevelt (1740-1792), in a white silk dress with a fur-lined blue wrap, seated in a chair holding a fur muff
the first incribed with the sitters name 'Jean Daniel de Loches/... Schepen/te Rotterdam' (on the reverse); the second inscribed with sitters name and age 'Maria Josina Baldina de Loches/geb van Oldenbarnevelt/genaamd Tullingh/oud 23 jaar.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
82.7 x 66.1 cm.
a pair (2)

(Possibly) commissioned by the sitters, and thence by descent to the present owner.